URayTech HEVC H.265 H.264 HDMI Live Streaming Broadcast Video Encoder with SRT RTSP RTMP UDP ONVIF HLS for IPTV, YouTube Facebook Live

The device arrived nice and quick, and came with a manual, which sadly is useless. My first review of this i was told broke a rule or two, yet dont know what rules i have broken as i am not told. So this i attempt number 2. I will state again that i couldnt get this to talk to any of my Windows 11 machines, either pro or home. BUT i could get it to talk to windows 10, which is good because i had to edit the settings for the network dns. Lets face it, if i dont mention that in this review, then it would NOT be a review. It arrived around 4pm and i finally got it talking to youtube by midnight. I got this for live streaming for a church, and i had to go through the same process once i installed it at its permenant location. It certainly wasnt "plug and play". I was lucky i still had a windows 10 machine knocking around. The manual really needs a re-write with someone that knows how this works and rather not a bad translation. I am pleased how it works. Once setup, i didnt even need to log into my youtube account and click the "fo live" button, it started streaming straight away. I have used other type of devices, the one this replaces failed, the video quality on this one was superior. So for the price, it gets the job done.

TLDR; Encoder is easy to use, feature packed, reliable, well built and customer service is extremely helpful! I wouldn’t buy an encoder from any other brand going forward. Full review; I had purchased an HDMI encoder from another brand that was advertised to work with VLC. Spoiler alert it didn’t work with VLC player well at all! This uRay encoder is high quality and just works, very simple to use, it streams reliably and has every setting I could think of. Customer service is very responsive to questions and request for assistance. I was curious about the API this device uses and they were able to help me formulate an API call to change the setting I was looking to change. Most other AV companies don’t provide such a high-level of customer service and it’s so great that they provide awesome customer service like this. One thing to be aware of; so far I have only been able to get L-PCM 2 channel stereo audio working with the HDMI encoder. I’ll probably have to down-mix my Dolby 5.1 bitstream audio to 2 channel stereo, not a dealbreaker and I’m not taking off any stars for this since it’s easily fixable on my end and I have not even asked customer support about it yet. I’m sure they would go above and beyond to help anyway they can! All around a great product, great company and good people!

This is the cheapest streaming encoder I could find so I was a little hesitant but it actually does the job quite well. Just a couple of things. For whatever reason, the default IP of this device is 192.168.1.168. So the first thing you need to do is hook it up to your router along with a PC/laptop so you can change the segment to 0 so it can be seen on most people's local network (ie 192.168.0.168) This is a bit of a faff and I don't know why they don't just make the default 0 anyway!!? Odd. Also, there is no way I can see to stop it from encoding as long as it is turned on and plugged in. You literally have to have it turned off at the plug to make it stop. Would be nice if they just added a start/stop button in the software.

This IPTV encoder was perfect for our project to create a TV channel for our TV provider to include in our channel line-up. This encoder has many easy-to-find settings, which we adjusted to the specifications required by our TV provider. The encoder has been working flawlessly for over 3 months now. Despite power outages here in Florida, the encoder comes right back on when power is restored. This encoder meets our needs.

Works like a charm. Very good value too. 1080p*50FPS H264 at 6mbps. You can have up to 4 stream types/quality variations at a time. Highly recommended